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(No Mod-e1.) S. CLEMENTS & D. S. LIGHT.

Railroad Rail Fastening.

No. 239,731. Patented April 5; I881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC.

GEORGE S. GLEMENTS AND DANIEL S. LIGHT, OF MILL GREEK,

. RAILROAD-RAIL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,731, dated April 5,

Application filed January 6, 1881. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE S. CLmMmN'rs and DANIEL S. LIGHT, of Mill Creek, in the county of l-luntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Joint-Bar for Railroad-Rails; and We hereby declare the following to be a -t'ull, clear, and exact account thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the ends of two rails joined with our device. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional View of the rail and tie or joint bar. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details to be referred to.

The object of our invention is to provide a meansfor securely fastening the ends of trackrails of railroads; and our invention consists in a joint-covering device composed of two pieces of rolled metal claspin g the ends of contiguous rails, and secured by a key which gives a lateral pressure, and is, in turn, secured by spikes driven in offsets provided for the purpose, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the said drawings, A A represent two trackrails, the ends of which abut against each other in the usual manner. A plate of steel or iron, B, is bent to conform to the shape of the rail, starting from beneath the T on one side, passing down and over the foot of the rail, and beneath the rail to the opposite edge of the foot, when it is turned or lapped over, as seen at a to. Another pla' or iron, I, passes from beneath the e T of the rail, down over the foot and its edge passes beneath the lap b b pass through the rails and thI'Ol B I, and fasten them securely tog plate B, when the lap is made, an left for a longitudinal kc), E, \\'h driven in, crowds the edges of the gether by its lateral pressure and l firmly. In the bight of the lap in 1'. cut recesses e e, to receive spikes to plates. In the side of the key E a: recesses '21 'i, which, when the key home, register with recesses e 0, am spikes secure both the plate and Where plate B passes around the e foot of the rail recesses 0 0 are cut spikes to add to the security ot the Having thus described our inven we claim as new, and desire to seem ters Patent. is-

The improved rail-joint fastening of plate B, elasping the rails on th bottom, and provided with lap a, a: engaging in lap'a. in combination v said lap and key being provided wit for the purpose set forth.

GEO. S. OLEI DANIEL S. L Witnesses:

HENRY L. Wilson, JAMES OozzENs. 

